The Long-Standing Online Campaign, beginning in Germany, travelling through Italy and Greece to the Sea of Azov.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Otyugh Round 8: Disaster!

Joost failed his morale, and would have pulled back, but ...

Mega moves off to take the torch from Palt (orders from Frith) and Kushi gets his bearings. Ganzor and Odval flank Ahmet and Frith steps up behind, muttering encouraging phrases. Erdina administers to Salth, both able to see in the dark, and Salth takes no bleeding damage from his wound.

Batath advances, calls Seth back from inside the pond; Seth complies. Nerga takes a swing and hits, but only manages to hit the blunt of his pick against the creature's hide ... not enough to stun.

Warth shouts at the men, "GET down that slope, soldiers!" At Lukas he shouts, "COME ON!" Then follows his troops down. Worter slips, but Htuya lands beside him and catches him. Wedth slips and falls in the muck (effectively stunned), but Vala and Culf are fine. Warth does it with aplomb, and Zoft does a face plant.

The creature rears in the water and its body strikes both Andrej and Nerga. Andrej takes 3 damage and Nerga 1. It does not move, but stays where it is.

The mouth misses Andrej, and its first tentacle strikes out and catches Nerga for 5 damage, slapping him with the back of the tentacle upon his face, spinning him around. Nerga falls back, stunned.

The other tentacle curls around Andrej, and flips upwards, literally tearing a furrow through the hard metal of Joost's armor. It splits the man-at-arms' chest open - Joost takes 12 damage, and dies almost instantly.

This round:

Andrej can attack directly. He will be aided by Culf and Warth, both of whom descended the slope without trouble.

Lukas and Klaas are up on the slope, and while Klaas can continue loading, Balther looks like he's going to move forward and both Klaas and Lukas will lose their light. I don't what sources of light you may both have. Also, Klaas needs to roll HIS morale (please roll 2d6 Lukas), to see how distraught he is at witnessing Joost's death.

I'm not sure if I gave a morale figure for either the two men-at-arms previously. It should be 9, but I might have been kind earlier and made it 8. Either way, yes, Klaas is sure to become useless baggage at this point - at least until he realizes there's no way to improve his situation besides fighting.

Still, getting him to go down the slope or do anything will be difficult at this point.